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Sheepdog

Protecting America from excessive stool loitering
Dec 1, 2015
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Don't sell yourself short. You're like a curmudgeon-savant.
I must actually be smarter than Dunning and Kruger though. Psychology degrees are for cucks with mommy or daddy issues and everyone knows it. If they were smarter, they would know to hide their cuckery by getting a less cucky degree,
 

BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
Jul 22, 2015
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I must actually be smarter than Dunning and Kruger though. Psychology degrees are for cucks with mommy or daddy issues and everyone knows it. If they were smarter, they would know to hide their cuckery by getting a less cucky degree,
That's the spirit.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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And we've moved to the part of the show where everybody is so meta in their sarcastic impression mocking their opponent that they are now arguing the opposite point of view and everybody else gets tired of the thread and closes the website.


speak for yourself, Nancy Grace.
 

Filthy

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and we should use our best available information to make decisions as they present themselves. Not go on hunches because they're comforting. Particularly as those hunches look increasingly unjustified.
exactly. and our best available information indicates a big gap in our quantification of risk as it pertains to opening schools in this pandemic.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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Out of curiosity, are you "working from home" throughout this pandemic?
can you explain the mechanism by which children less transmissible infection vectors?
or maybe you can explain the mechanism by which children are less affected by COVID?
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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Closing schools moves beyond home schooling in this instance. It also means isolating a child from their peers and that's the big issue.
alternative learning isn't "closing schools" and "isolating a child from their peers".

you're working with the same strawman as before.
 

BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
Jul 22, 2015
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They can still visit with less than 10 peers, right?

:D
Absolutely.

Of course at that point you might as well just send them to school. Unless you're planning on locking down everyone who lives in the household with these hypothetical kids, but I'm not sure how you're going to draw straws to see which sibling in a household gets to socialize with his/her friends.
 

Shinkicker

For what it's worth
Jan 30, 2016
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alternative learning isn't "closing schools" and "isolating a child from their peers".

you're working with the same strawman as before.
Homeschooled kids usually have better social skills.

Just sayin'

If anyone can homeschool and wants to, I'm all for it.

I can but my two teens have said "absolutely not". They want to go to school. They miss it terribly. So I guess we are playing corona roulette for the foreseeable future.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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That's weird because that's exactly the opposite of the information coming in from public health authorities. It's actually the main reason they're advising schools reopen here.
same public health authorities that told you it wasn't human transmissible because it would impact global economy, and told you masks don't work because they didn't have any? Maybe because they pissed away the last few months on political fighting and don't have any other solutions? If we're talking about the same public health authorities, they've shown a willingness to put politics and self-interest over public health.

Have they given you information on the mechanism that makes children low-risk and poor spreaders of this virus?
especially since that's the opposite of basically every other human coronavirus.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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Please start a thread with that as the title.
it'd be the shortest thread eva



"In perhaps the simplest of the studies analyzing homeschooled students’ social skills, SSRS scores for homeschooled children in Grades 3 to 6 were compared to the test norms (Medlin, 2007). Total social skills scores for homeschooled girls in the fifth and sixth grades, and boys in sixth grade, were significantly higher than the norms. On the individual scales, sixth-grade boys’ cooperation, assertion, and empathy scores were significantly higher than the norms, whereas fourth-grade girls scored higher on empathy, fifth-grade girls higher on all four skills, and sixth-grade girls higher on all but assertion. No group scored significantly lower than the norms on any of the scales. "